Summit on Energy Efficiency (Audio)
Summit on Energy Efficiency (Audio)
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Leaders from industry, government and academia address progress in energy efficiency technologies, commercialization and policy at the UC Santa Barbara Institute for Energy Efficiency’s yearly summit.
Real-Time Control Mechanisms for Community Energy Management - Mahnoosh Alizadeh
Mahnoosh Alizadeh is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the UC Santa Barbara. Alizadeh’s research is focused on designing scalable control and data analytic frameworks and market mechanisms for enabling sustainability and resiliency in societal infrastructure systems. Series: "Institute for Energy Efficiency" [Science] [Show ID: 36796]
Mar 2, 2021
14 min
The SmartFarm Project - Chandra Krintz
Chandra Krintz is a professor of Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara. SmartFarm is a research project that investigates the design and implementation of an open source, hybrid cloud approach to agriculture analytics for enabling sustainable farming practices. Series: "Institute for Energy Efficiency" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 36803]
Mar 1, 2021
19 min
Groundwater Depletion Amplifies the Water-Energy Nexus - Debra Perrone
Debra Perrone is an Assistant Professor of UCSB’s Environmental Studies Program. Deb integrates research methods from engineering, physical science, and law to inform water sustainability and policy. Series: "Institute for Energy Efficiency" [Science] [Show ID: 36804]
Feb 27, 2021
14 min
Towards a Zero-Carbon Electric Grid - David Erne
David Erne leads smart grid research for the California Energy Commission’s Energy Research and Development Division. In this role, he manages a portfolio of research initiatives to improve electric system reliability and resilience for customers. Series: "Institute for Energy Efficiency" [Science] [Show ID: 36797]
Feb 27, 2021
16 min
The Revolution in Data Center Communications and Interconnects - Raj Yavatkar
Raj Yavatkar is Chief Technology Officer at Juniper Networks. He leads and executes the company’s critical innovations and products for intelligent self-driving networks, security, Mobile Edge Cloud, network virtualization, packet-optical integration, and hybrid cloud. Series: "Institute for Energy Efficiency" [Science] [Show ID: 36798]
Feb 26, 2021
19 min
Photonic Integration for Data Centers - John Bowers
John Bowers is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara. He is interested in energy efficiency and the development of novel low power optoelectronic devices for the next generation of optical networks. Series: "Institute for Energy Efficiency" [Science] [Show ID: 36801]
Feb 25, 2021
8 min
Cloud-Scale Interconnect Architectures in the Context of Hardware and Software Codesign - Katharine Schmidtke
Katharine Schmidtke is Director of Sourcing for ASICs and Custom Silicon at Facebook, the world’s largest social network and one of the five largest hyperscale-datacenter operators in the world. In this role she directs sourcing strategy for Facebook’s inference and video transcoding ASICs, and next generation interconnect technology. Series: "Institute for Energy Efficiency" [Science] [Show ID: 36799]
Feb 24, 2021
19 min
A Perspective from the California Agricultural Industry - Stuart Woolf
Stuart Woolf is President and CEO of Woolf Farming & Processing, a family owned operation whose primary business is the production and processing of agricultural commodities. Series: "Institute for Energy Efficiency" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 36802]
Feb 23, 2021
22 min
Moving Bits Not Watts - Sangwon Suh
Sangwon Suh is a professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on the sustainability of the human-nature complexity through the understanding of materials and energy exchanges between them. Series: "Institute for Energy Efficiency" [Science] [Show ID: 36794]
Feb 22, 2021
20 min
From Demand Response to Fleet Electrification: A Search for High Impact Solutions - Sila Kiliccote
Sila Kiliccote, CEO & co-founder of eIQMobility, has over 15 years of experience in building and leading teams to deliver impactful and innovative research in demand response, vehicle-to-grid, and data analytics for the electricity grid. Series: "Institute for Energy Efficiency" [Science] [Show ID: 36793]
Feb 21, 2021
25 min